Tag: Harmony Korine
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‘Aggro Dr1ft’ Review: Harmony Korine Goes Sicko Mode In A Visually Stunning Journey Through Miami Thug Life [Venice]
Ten years after “Spring Breakers,” the neon pinks and greens of Harmony Korine’s mainstream breakthrough return in an Internet-inflected and even more abstract ode to the thug life, with seriously mixed results. To call “Aggro Dr1ft” stupid or silly isn’t wrong, but it is missing the point. The dialogue is incredibly banal and hilariously repetitive,…
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‘Aggro Dr1ft’ Review: Harmony Korine’s Infrared Nightmare Offers a Hellish but Fascinating Vision of Cinema’s Future
Harmony Korine has been openly bored with movies as we know them since the first time that he directed one. Real ’90s kids remember when he went on “Late Show with David Letterman” to promote “Gummo,” and insisted to the befuddled host that “things need to change. We can make films differently.” Korine may not…
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Harmony Korine Sounds Off on ‘Aggro Dr1ft,’ TikToks Being Better Than Movies and More: ‘I Feel Nothing’ and ‘Dead Inside’ Watching Films
Harmony Korine used to be a movie junkie, someone who’d watch anything and everything. These days, when people recommend a movie, “I’ll look at it and I feel nothing, like dead inside,” says the guy whose own films, from “Spring Breakers” to the controversial screenplay for Larry Clark’s “Kids,” are nothing if not disruptive.“Watching a…
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Harmony Korine Reveals Terrence Malick Wrote a Script He Wants Him to Direct
Harmony Korine is done with “normal films,” except possibly a Terrence Malick movie.The “Spring Breakers” and “Kids” auteur told GQ that he is stepping away from Hollywood as a whole, following the more muted reception to 2019’s “The Beach Bum.”“I just lost interest in normal films,” Korine said. “I was like, There’s something else. That…
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Harmony Korine Says Terrence Malick Wrote A Script For Him To Direct
Harmony Korine has never made “normal” films. Even his most straightforward feature, probably 2019’s “The Beach Bum,” is pretty subversive by traditional standards. But then you look at things like “Gummo,” “Spring Breakers,” and “Trash Humpers,” and you realize Korine just clearly doesn’t have any interest in making anything the general public would embrace. So,…
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World premiere of Garth Davis’s ‘Foe’, Benny Safdie series ‘The Curse’ in NYFF Spotlight line-up
Fest previously announced North American premiere of Bradley Cooper’s Maestro.The world premiere of Garth Davis’s sci-fi drama Foe starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal and Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s series The Curse with Emma Stone are among New York Film Festival’s (Nnyff) line-up.The roster includes Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy And The Heron, a late-night…
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Harmony Korine Teases ‘Aggro Dr1ft’ in Locarno, Says ‘No’ to ‘Spring Breakers 2’ During a Masterclass Crashed by Friend Gaspar Noe
Harmony Korine teased upcoming Venice premiere “Aggro Dr1ft” in Locarno, where he picked up the Pardo d’onore Manor award for outstanding achievement in cinema.“I am excited. I have never made anything like it. I was trying not to make a movie. I don’t know if it will be a scandal, but it will be its…
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Only Stellan Skarsgard, Harmony Korine of Stars but New Talent Shines at Locarno; 10 Industry Takeaways from the Swiss Festival
Locarno — Switzerland’s Locarno Fest hit its final straits on Wednesday evening with “Spring Breakers” director Harmony Korine, among a slim roster of on-site stars, set to arrive to accept in person an Honorary Golden Pard.Otherwise, the dust is settling on activities at the festival’s vibrant industry arm, Locarno Pro, which broke all-time attendance records…
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Every A24 Movie Coming Out in 2023 and Beyond
It’s rare for a studio to become a brand, but A24 has managed it. Since its humble beginnings as a New York-based distribution company founded by Daniel Katz, David Fenkel, and John Hodges in August 2012, A24 has become synonymous with quality for film lovers, the place that releases the must-see indies everyone is talking…
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Trailer Watch: Travis Scott’s Circus Maximus, Co-Directed With Harmony Korine, Gaspar Noé, Nicolas Winding Refn and More
While rapper Travis Scott stars in Harmony Korine‘s latest film Aggro Dr1ft (announced today as part of the Venice 2023 lineup), today Scott announces another collaboration with Korine (and a handful of other filmmakers): Circus Maximus, the 75-minute visual accompaniment to his forthcoming album Utopia. Scott and Korine direct alongside Gaspar Noé, Nicolas Winding Refn,…